Alan Stenhouse

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | CSIRO · Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platform

Biological collections play a crucial role in our understanding of biodiversity and inform research in areas such as biosecurity, conservation, human health and climate change. In recent years, the digitisation of biological specimen collections has emerged as a vital mechanism for preserving and facilitating access to these invaluable scientific d...

The gut microbiome plays a vital role in health and wellbeing of animals, and an increasing number of studies are investigating microbiome changes in wild and managed populations to improve conservation and welfare. The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is an iconic Australian species, the most widespread native mammal, and commonly hel...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has imposed restrictions on people's movement, work and access to places at multiple international, national and sub-national scales. We need a better understanding of how the varied restrictions have impacted wildlife monitoring as gaps in data continuity caused by these disruptions may limit future data use and analys...

Significance Echidnas are iconic egg-laying mammals threated by environmental changes. However, their cryptic lifestyle and Australia-wide distribution renders a citizen science approach the only feasible way to obtain continent-scale information. With EchidnaCSI (Conservation Science Initiative), we used a citizen science approach to learn more ab...

Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) are a cryptic and iconic monotreme found throughout the continent of Australia. Despite observational records spanning many years aggregated in national and state biodiversity databases, the spatial and temporal intensity of sightings is limited. Although the species is of least conservation concern at...

Biodiversity monitoring is key for developing informed solutions to the threats facing our environment, including habitat loss, increasing pollution, wildlife trafficking and climate change. Citizen science is increasingly used for collecting species observational data at wide spatial and temporal scales that are difficult and expensive to achieve...

Field data collection by Citizen Scientists has been hugely assisted by the rapid development and spread of smart phones as well as apps that make use of the integrated technologies contained in these devices. We can improve the quality of the data by increasing utilisation of the device in-built sensors and improving the software user-interface. I...

This Masters' thesis examines the potential of a paths facility as an aid to navigating large hypermedia systems. Completed in 1992.